I did Paris - London by Eurostar. The security and border control part is as annoying as flying. Actually it’s even worse since they check all your luggage. If you fly at least they only check handluggage. Ride was great however.

They definitely check all your luggage when you fly. You just don’t see it because you dropped your bags at the counter.

It gave me the dream to work remotely from abroad. I'm relatively poor and working a lot, but almost 2 years in Japan now.

Do you just use a self-sponsored visa? I jump back and fourth but work for a US based company on salary. Curious if I could do the same?

I'm on a cultural visa and am learning a martial art under the guidance of a teacher. I pay taxes in the origin country, but it's not optimal. If you have enough money, found a company, then you won't have any problems and can renew easily.

If MSSQL runs on a synology nas, then a lot of smaller companies can save a lot of money, because they wouldn't need a huge server anymore.

I can imagine difficulties that happen regularly in those teams not appearing, since remote work probably attracts more internationally minded people with fluent english.

I've had to work with a french dev that only wanted to write emails in english and refused to speak it on the phone, maybe because his office mates could listen.

A francophone boss that was so overconfident in his english ability, that he considered using "yeah" instead of "yes" as rude.

Happened to me too with my 2011 macbook air and my 2010 macbok pro 15' when using the 2 prong adapter at home in Europe. Currently typing this on a 13'' late 2014 13'' MBP with 2 prongs in Japan. No problems.

Finally somebody reasonable in this thread. Most people might want this behaviour.

I live in Japan, and while mobile hotspots are popular for airbnbs and tourists, I don't think most people have them here. Also, there are mobile hotspots with unlimited data. The rest of the country has unlimited fiber at home, so it's especially those people that want their youtube and facebook videos to autoplay.

I see the point tough. It's bad on a limited wifi hotspot

A bit off-topic: Japan is weird. We could get data-sims as tourists, but I don't think we would have been able to make calls?

I used this to make my own webshop software for a client. Lots of ajax features but only 80 lines of javascript in total. Intercooler is great to update the shopping cart in the sidebar when pressing the add to cart button. This makes the shop feel a lot smoother.

ADD Programmer here. I've been very productive offline. I would like to work offline more, but since I mostly do web development, thats is really hard.

HTTP servers work offline too. What issues do you come across trying to do web development offline?

Just when I finally was happy with calendaring and got organised. So annoying